A bear hug for Obama

Sept. 9 - U.S. President Barack Obama got a boost to his campaign when a pizza parlor owner gave him a bear hug. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

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U.S. President Barack Obama got a lift to his campaign when he walked into the Big Apple Pizza & Pasta Restaurant in Ft. Pierce, Fla., Sunday afternoon and was greeted by owner Scott Van Duzer.
Van Duzer said he received notice that the president was stopping by about forty minutes before the president's arrival. Obama has spent the weekend in Florida on the campaign trail.

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